GULLY (gullied)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: gullied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does gully mean? 

• GULLY (noun)
  The noun GULLY has 1 sense:

1. deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)

  Familiarity information: GULLY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GULLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("gully" is a kind of...):

vale; valley (a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gully"):

arroyo (a stream or brook)

draw (a gully that is shallower than a ravine)

wadi (gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season)

 Context examples 

Gullies are a widespread and common feature on the Martian surface, mostly occurring between 30 and 50 degrees latitude in both the northern and southern hemispheres, generally on slopes that face toward the poles.

(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)

One mechanism by which carbon-dioxide frost might drive gully flows is by gas that is sublimating from the frost providing lubrication for dry material to flow.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

One cut with my sea-gully and the HISPANIOLA would go humming down the tide.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Had she done it an instant sooner we should have crashed against the wood-work, carried it away, and been hurled into the deep gully below.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars is covered in gullies and dry riverbeds, but scientists have always been baffled as to how water could have existed on the freezing world.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Planetary scientists think these gullies or recurring slope lineae (RSLs) may appear seasonally as a form of briny water at or near the surface of the Red Planet under warmer conditions.

(NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites, NASA)

The Company, who had passed the night in a sheltered gully, were already astir, some crowding round the blazing fires and others romping or leaping over each other's backs for their limbs were chilled and the air biting.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

New findings using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water.

(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)

Repeated high-resolution observations made by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) indicate the gullies on Mars' surface are primarily formed by the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide, not liquid water.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

With that I made my mind up, took out my gully, opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another, till the vessel swung only by two.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)